What are your thoughts on workshop?

12 years 10 months ago #99581 by Garbo
Have any of you spent more than $500 on a workshop and didn't get your money's worth? I'm really thinking about doing some workshops, but would hate to spend the money on the work, airfare, and hotel cost for something that wasn't worth it.

What are some of the larger work shops that YOU KNOW are a good value.

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12 years 10 months ago #99583 by Baydream
What type of workshop are you considering? What do you expect to learn? There are ones that offer great personal growth and there are those that are shams, just as there are good and bad on-line workshops.

Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
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12 years 10 months ago #99587 by photobod
Research is the answer, whenever I go on any course I research it first thats the beauty of the internet.

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"A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective." - Irving Penn

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12 years 10 months ago #99595 by Garbo

Baydream wrote: What type of workshop are you considering? What do you expect to learn? There are ones that offer great personal growth and there are those that are shams, just as there are good and bad on-line workshops.


I'm mainly interested in landscape, portrait and would like to get into wedding photography work more seriously. I'm really interested in the ones where you fly into a certain city for example, have some sit down lecture then out in the field time with the camera.

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12 years 10 months ago #99599 by Garbo

photobod wrote: Research is the answer, whenever I go on any course I research it first thats the beauty of the internet.


That is why I made this thread to start with ;)

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12 years 10 months ago #99695 by Kenya See
If I had the spare cash I would go! There are some good ones out there.


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12 years 10 months ago #99731 by Scotty
They're great. Wedding landscape and portrait will all be seperate.

I'd take the portrait one first as it will apply to wedding.

Landscape you can learn on your own with time.

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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12 years 10 months ago #99743 by Baydream

Scotty wrote: They're great. Wedding landscape and portrait will all be seperate.

I'd take the portrait one first as it will apply to wedding.

Landscape you can learn on your own with time.

:agree: Workshops are generally focused on a specific area of photography.

Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
fineartamerica.com/profiles/john-g-schickler.html?tab=artwork

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12 years 10 months ago #99763 by effron
I believe Harold Davis does an occasional workshop in the Alabama Hills, Eastern Sierra Nevada and I have been tempted. I have read a few participants reviews, and they all seem to have benefited, as well as had a great time...........B)

Why so serious?
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12 years 10 months ago #102223 by ShadowWalker
I'm all for them. Take a look at Maine Media Workshops, Bryan Peterson Workshops and Scott Kelby has some good work shops :thumbsup:


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12 years 10 months ago #102245 by Nikonjan
Do you have a professional organization where you live? If you join them they have conferences/conventions where the pros have one day classes on lighting, posing, business, etc. You also can get discounts on seminars that come to your area. Join PP of america, it includes many countries. You get discounts on software and they send you info on speakers and their tours. I have taken many seminars that have come to Portland, Oregon. Scott Kelby, David Ziser to name a couple.

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12 years 10 months ago #102385 by Gene.Culley

ShadowWalker wrote: I'm all for them. Take a look at Maine Media Workshops, Bryan Peterson Workshops and Scott Kelby has some good work shops :thumbsup:



I like Peterson's and Kelby's books. :thumbsup:


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12 years 10 months ago #102411 by mj~shutterbugg
I would love to take a few workshops, unfortunately I am cash strapped and there is equipment needed before I can sink money into workshops. I am trying to find a mentor I can learn from though.

Think Off-Center ~ George Carlin
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12 years 10 months ago #102439 by Baydream

mj~shutterbugg wrote: I would love to take a few workshops, unfortunately I am cash strapped and there is equipment needed before I can sink money into workshops. I am trying to find a mentor I can learn from though.

There is a club in Worthington. www.westbridgecc.com/aws/WBCC/pt/sp/home_page
Their site says they have workshops and outings.

Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
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12 years 10 months ago #102453 by projectbasho
At Project Basho in Philadelphia, we offer a pretty broad range of workshops and our participants always come out of them really learning a lot thanks to our small class sizes and atmosphere.

Check out our full workshop listing: www.projectbasho.org/workshops/photograp...summer11.html#anchor

National Geographic Photographer, Ed Kashi will be teaching a workshop with us this summer.


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